Nap Jamir

My works Fragments #1-4 came about as a result of re-visiting old images I had previously produced.

I am constantly consumed with the drive to go beyond what a conventional photograph reveals. Initially, I started combining several images together to create a montage within the photographs that I took.

But I wasn’t satisfied, I felt I boxed in. I wanted to challenge the two dimensional plane of the photograph and break out of the frame.

Then I noticed torn posters pasted on walls that showed older layers of posters underneath them, which created a dimensionality that revealed a different meaning when viewed.

And so I started tearing my photographs and assembling them as one image.

To further push the notion that the art doesn’t rest within the frame, I have started to bend, fold and crumple my torn photographs.

Driven by these, I have ventured to explore further.

By using the medium of video, I decided to push the art making process further by taking the physicality of the artwork, and transforming it into the digital state of electronic media.

To add a sense of detachment of the watcher watching the watched, I decided to shoot the video playback on a tv screen, including the reflection of the artist (myself) in the room.

In the last video piece, I deconstructed the video of the artwork further by res-shooting the video (10x) until it disintegrates into white noise, then disappears.